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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!ox-prg!bush
  2. From: bush@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Mark Bush)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
  4. Subject: Re: Questions about booting from a floppy. (IPC)
  5. Message-ID: <4279@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 13 Aug 92 17:05:22 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug13.145653.7605@ncar.ucar.edu>
  8. Sender: news@comlab.ox.ac.uk
  9. Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory
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  12. In article <1992Aug13.145653.7605@ncar.ucar.edu> nws@stout.atd.ucar.edu (Eddie Roberts (The National Weather Service)) writes:
  13. #Questions:
  14. #1).  Is it possible to tell the boot program to use the
  15. #     kernel on the disk?
  16.  
  17. Use `b floppy -a' which will prompt you for where to find everything.
  18.  
  19. See boot(8) for details.
  20.  
  21. Mark
  22.